Extracting Meaning from Ploughsoil Assemblages

Extracting Meaning from Ploughsoil Assemblages. The Archaeology of Mediterranean Landscapes 5

Francovich, R., H. Patterson (eds)

Hardcover. 266 pp. Illustrated in b/w. Oxbow Books 1999.

Contents:

• Assessments of the Past, Strategies for the Future (S. Alcock).
• Methodology: Methods of Collection, Recording and Quantification (D. Mattingly);
• Cultural Depositional Processes and Post-depossitional Problems (J. Taylor);
• Ceramics and the Site (Vincent Gaffney);
• What Are we Counting For? (Elizabeth Fentress); Dating,
• Quantifying and Utilizing Pottery from Surface Survey (Martin Millett);
• Towards an Analysis of Incomplete Distributions (Nicola Terrenato);
• Quando i Campi Hanno Pochi Significati da Estarre (Franco Cambi);
• Prospection et Chronologie: de la quantification du temps au modèle de peuplement (Frédéric Trément);
• Discussion (Martin Millett).
• Ceramic Studies in Mediterranean Survey: Prehistoric Ceramic Studies (Caroline Malone & Simon Stoddart);
• Roman Ceramic Studies in Mediterranean Survey (John W. Hayes);
• Early Medieval and Medieval Ceramic Studies (Helen Patterson).
• Case Studies: Surface Survey Analysis of the Copper Age Site of La Pijotilla (Spain) (Victor Hurtado);
• On-site Surface Distributions and Geophysica: the site of Rodik-Adjovscina (Bozidar Slapsak, Branko Music & Verena Perko);
• Il Caso dell'Itlia Medio-tirrenica (Andrea Zifferaro);
• Ceramic Chronology and Roman Rural Settlement in the Lower Guadalquivir Valley during the Augustan Period (Simon Keay);
• Terracotta and its Territory (Franco Cambi);
• The Adriatic Islands Project (Vincent Gaffney, Branco Kirigin, John W. Hayes & Peter Leach);
• Céramologie et Histoire du Peuplement dans la Cité de Mines (Claude Raynaud);
• Insediamento e Circolazione Ceramica fra V e X Secolo nella Toscana Centro-meridionale (Riccardo Francovich & Marco Valenti);
• Reconstructing the Classical Landscape with Figures: some interpretive explorations in North-West Keos (Todd Whitelaw);
• Demographic Trends: the Contribution of Regional Survey Data (John Bintliff & Kostas Sbonias);
• Conclusion (Susan E. Alcock, Franco Cambi, Simon Keay & Claude Raynaud).